Bob Jaeger, cofounder of Partners for Sacred Places. Photo/courtesy of The Living Church” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Halo-effect-story-photo-courtesy-The-Living-Church.jpg?fit=300%2C160&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Halo-effect-story-photo-courtesy-The-Living-Church.jpg?fit=1024%2C547&ssl=1″/>Study helps churches expand their ‘halo effect’
Episcopal Journal
June 19, 2023
According to Partners for Sacred Places, the average rural church benefits its community by about $750,000; an urban church, about $1.7 million, writes The Living Church.
Dorothy Wells” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Dorothy-Wells.jpg?fit=300%2C175&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Dorothy-Wells.jpg?fit=600%2C349&ssl=1″/>
House of Deputies President Julia Ayala Harris opens the June 12-15 meeting of Executive Council. Photo/David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ENS_061223_ExCoun_Harris.jpg?fit=300%2C200&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/ENS_061223_ExCoun_Harris.jpg?fit=750%2C500&ssl=1″/>
Epiphany moved its stained-glass windows, pulpit, lectern, 14th-century baptismal font, and columbarium to its new building. Photo/Church of the Epiphany” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Church-of-the-Epiphany-credit-the-church.jpg?fit=300%2C155&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Church-of-the-Epiphany-credit-the-church.jpg?fit=1024%2C531&ssl=1″/>
J. Wippell & Co. was one of a handful of clerical haberdashers that were perennial fixtures in the General Convention exhibit hall. The 2018 gathering in Austin, Texas, was the last time the convention included an exhibit hall because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Photo/J. Wippell & Co.” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Wippell-credit-the-company.jpg?fit=300%2C161&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Wippell-credit-the-company.jpg?fit=1000%2C538&ssl=1″/>
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby and Ugandan Archbishop Stephen Kaziimba. ” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Welby-and-Kaziimba-credit-Church-Times.jpg?fit=300%2C183&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Welby-and-Kaziimba-credit-Church-Times.jpg?fit=818%2C500&ssl=1″/>
From left, the Principal of St Patrick’s Theological College in Toliara, Dean Berthier Lainirina, Bishop Anthony Poggo, Bishop Jean Paul Solo of Toamasina, at the signing of the letter. Photo/Anglican Communion Office” data-medium-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Faith-leaders-fossil-fuel-credit-ACNS.jpg?fit=300%2C176&ssl=1″ data-large-file=”https://i0.wp.com/episcopaljournal.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Faith-leaders-fossil-fuel-credit-ACNS.jpg?fit=1024%2C600&ssl=1″/>
